Comments on: Josh Johnson is feeling good heading into spring traininghttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014/02/08/josh-johnson-is-feeling-good-heading-into-spring-training/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:54:39 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Old Gatorhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014/02/08/josh-johnson-is-feeling-good-heading-into-spring-training/#comment-652749
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 03:19:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652749Face it sewerbear, you disgusting, hate-obsessed little homophobe, you’re a lowlife. Try spelling it “you’re,” a contraction of “you are.” Twitterspeak is a dead giveaway that you’re missing a chromosome for coherence.
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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:36:25 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652738Old Felcher – again instead of owning up to ur own idiocy, you just keep hammering away at ur keyboard, talking in circles trying to confuse the issue. Face it ur a moron.
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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 01:12:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652724Cur – okay, so they haven’t picked anyone yet. I thought maybe I had missed some announcement about it. Well, it’ll be an interesting spring.

As far as the Feesh, peetching isn’t going to be their problem. Some things about El Keed seemed almost too good to be true last season. It’d be great if he just picks up where he left orf, but even though I don’t believe in a sophomore jinx, I wouldn’t be totally surprised if he were partially “solved” this season and had to do some scrabbling. I’m more interested in how Nate Eovaldi develops now, and in seeing if Henderson Alvarez can improve his control and concentration. Is Jacob Turner going to grow into the stud they thought they were trading for?

And Heaney is coming – that’s going to be the big story this spring. Is he really ready to launch? The Feesh really need a lefty to give that totally righthanded rotation an alternate look.

No, the team’s big problem is going to be run production, again. Absurdly, they waited two and a half seasons for Tweeter to evolve into a three or five hitter before they finally gave up on him. I mean, the Cubs wanted to talk about him in a package for Garza and Beinfest declared him untouchable. (Therein, by the way, lies the genesis of our pet sewer bear’s apoplexy, but I know you remember that episode even if he claims not to).

Meanwhile, the Feesh have loaded up off’n the scrapheap. Bugosevich, Furcal, Jones, McGhee….oh brother. there’s a batting order that’ll strike terror into the hearts of the divisional rotations. They can really rake – mostly in October when they go back home and have to clean up their yards. Saltalamacchia was about the only guy they acquired during the orfseason who figures to be an even remotely reliable bat. The other hopeful run producers are still big question marks – Ozuna, Marisnick, Yelich. As I said back a few days ago, Yelich didn’t do badly in his first season but his power, which was moderate at best, disappeared when he came up, and Marisnick never got going at all. Ozuna was streaky and he’s got that howitzer of an arm. But then, the Iron Giant was also pretty streaky and still swings at a lot of stuff way down and away. Pitchers know that about him and that’s usually the one they save for an out pitch when they get two strikes on him. You could see it in his eyes a lot last season when they got him on it: “Why can’t I lay off that goddamned pitch?”

Oh, sewer bear – sorry, if not for my mnemonic acuity I would have forgotten you, pointless as you are. Yes, of course they would “stretch him out,” you slobbering moron. You keep trying to twist the obvious and fundamental around to make it sound like you understand something about the game that I don’t. Like, for example, that I was making an implicit distinction between a closer and someone a team could afford to move out of the boolpen without disrupting their disposition too much. Simple, no? Basic, no? Face it: I was born knowing more about baseball than you’ll know by the time your ongoing process of decomposition has ended in a court finding that you’re brain dead and that somebody really ought to open a window. Maybe it just goes along with rooting for a team with over a century of futility behind it – and, most likely, ahead of it.

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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:45:33 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652714Johnson’t replacement has been revealed. I’m left wondering if they do something foolish and go for Ubaldo Jiminez or Santana. If neither, then Hutcheson will get the start I guess.

As for your boys, I’m looking forward to The Feesh Keed’s first start of the season.

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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:39:11 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652713Old Felcher – setup man refers to a reliever who will typically pitch one, or part of an inning in the 7th or 8th inning; setting up the closer. Not a hard concept to grasp for anyone other than you. Since these relievers are conditioned to pitch short outings, there’s no way they could just be thrust into a rotation for an injured starter. Should the decision be made to turn them into starters, they would go to the minors to get “stretched out.” Building up their pitch count and arm strength.

I’m very sorry you have a tenuous grasp on direct and plain english. I’m sure it goes hand in hand with your social ineptness.

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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:27:54 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652710Sewer bear: uh – yeah, I typed setup man, the assumption – and the correct one – being that it would make more sense to use a guy who has pitched more than one inning at a time in most of his outings when you need to replace a starter. This isn’t complicated – it just seems complicated to a moron like you. I have no idea whatsoever what you’re talking about most of the time and, clearly, neither do you – you’re just stringing together words along some demented illogical axis in a desperate attempt to clear the bile out of your system and seem like less of an idiot than you wind up sounding anyway. And again, you’re not fooling anyone, even if you are nauseating them.

Cur: so who replaces Johnson in the rotation? Have you heard anything about what kind of shape RA is in?

Here’s your exact quote once again: “Look, if your go-to guy is hurting and being ineffective anyway, it’s a tossup between starting a setup man and losing or pitching your injured man and losing anyway, plus risking a worse injury.”

You’ve typed setup man in plain english. Not sure what else to say about it. It’s sad when you try to project your failures on others.

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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:09:56 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652706Well, My Boys have some arms coming back from 2012 TJS. Drabek & Hutchinson. Also, Ricky Romero’s in AAA learning NOT to be Scott Kazmir, circa 2010. There are a couple of AAA guys who look ready (Nolin and Stroman) so THIS season, there are options. Also, one or two of the BP guys look like legit SPs (Esmil Rogers, Brad Lincoln, and the newly acquired Jeremy Jeffers). Its never going to be perfect, but its better than last season. I hope.
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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:08:20 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652705sewer bear: I didn’t say or even infer all boolpen arms were setup men. You did. I should have guessed when you resorted to twitterspeak that your readings skills, never substantial in the first place, were deteriorating even further. If you seriously believe that everyone else on here doesn’t see right through your lame elementary school rhetorical gambits, you’ve gone even further over the edge that we thought. I may indeed be possessed of esoteric oceanographic knowledge, but your range of legitimate understanding appears to be confined to the lowest slime level of pornographic slang. And this makes perfect sense.
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:35:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652701Old Felcher – not all bullpen arms are “set up men” dummy. Ur lack of baseball knowledge is so prevalent whenever you attempt to wade into any conversation about the game. stick to what u know, obscure sea life.
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:18:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652694Petco helps, but not always in the way you think. Instead of losing 8-5, he could lose 2-1 and people will think he’s pitching well. Watch his road starts, especially in Denver/Milwaukee/Cincinnati, and ignore those in L.A./S.F.Those last two play almost like Petco.
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:12:25 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652690You see, cur, this is Teddybore’s private cesspool.

Okay now, let’s leave our pet sewer rat’s utterly hilarious comment that teams don’t shift guys into the rotation from the boolpen for our “dumbest remarks of the year” list in December. What I’m wondering is who the Feather Lice are going to turn to when, not if, they have some breakdowns this season. I haven’t heard anything out of Biggeth Dicketh this winter so I don’t know what kind of shape he’s in; he hasn’t been climbing Kilimanjaro or anything. I also haven’t paid much attention to what the Beavermen have been up to because they don’t seem to have been up to much. How does this bunch look to you going into ST?

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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 23:10:15 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652688Since you stuck your large stupid nose into our discussion this has everything to do with me. And, since I find you a stupid, dim witted, vulgar, mental defective, I would like it very much if you went back to collecting and cataloging your snot-balls for posterity or whatever it is odious people like you do with the long hours of their meaningless days.
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:53:15 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652687Felchee’68 – this doesn’t concern u
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:38:02 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652685This is an adult conversation you’re intruding in, vivaidiot. Until you can demonstrate any ability whatsoever to behave like a grown thinking person you aren’t welcome in it. Now take your juvenile, puerile commentary back to your cesspool.
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:55:22 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652681Old Felcher – bottom line, no team would throw a set up man into the starting rotation. Try to twist the facts all u want, that’s what u implied and ur an idiot for even thinking that.
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:45:32 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652680Cur – yeah, I know they tried doing some switching around. But the bottom line was that they kept trotting those guys out there even though they were both ineffective and hurting. I’m sure RA and JJ kept telling them that they were good to go, but at a certain point someone should have said enough is enough; we’re losing anyway and risking these guys’ further health. Add to that, that they were pretty well out of it by midseason already. Maybe they were spooked by 2012. I remember what a nightmare that was. And they may even have decided early on that they weren’t going to try to keep JJ anyway, whereas JJ was looking at his walk year following the Coriolis effect down the plughole and perhaps he got a little desperate himself. By his own admission, though, he already knew he wasn’t right by April.

As it turned out, he didn’t do too badly for himself considering the year he had. On the other hand, maybe he’s very lucky that he didn’t do more damage to himself than he did.

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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:36:11 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652676Little nobody: I didn’t say it was a whim. I said it was a tossup. That implies some thinking needs to be done about it. I doubt if anyone here is surprised that you wouldn’t be able to empathise with that. By the way, good to see your head back in the sewer, where it’s most at home. “Felcher” definitely has more class than “pederast” or “racist,” though I find all three of your desperate epithets hilarious.
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:39:02 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652664I tell you what, Gator, you make some salient points. The Beav Planners did give some AAA guys a shot and it didn’t go well at all for them, but they weren’t particularly long outings. When they knew it was a lost season, they should probably have shut JJ and RA down and gone all AAA, just to get those guys some seasoning.
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Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:30:41 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=510913#comment-652661Old Felcher – stick to references about obscure sea life. “it’s a tossup between starting a setup man”…MLB teams don’t just put a set up man in the starting rotation on a whim. Stay away from subjects about which u have no clue. I know it’s difficult with ur limited mental capacity, but please, for your own sake, try it.
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